The military spending of Russia for 2015 amounted to 2.9 trillion rubles. This is evidenced by the data transferred by Moscow to the UN and published in the public domain on the organization’s website . A year earlier, the Russian Federation declared military spending of 1.96 trillion rubles to the UN. Thus, in 2015, they increased by almost trillion, or by 48%.

Donald Trump, candidate of US President from the Republican Party, said that in the event of his victory in the election, he is ready to consider the legality of the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. Currently, due to events in Ukraine, including because of the Crimean issue, sanctions introduced by the United States are in force against Russia. Trump admitted that these restrictive measures can be removed. “We will consider this.

Alexander Golts "Russia is moving a confident segment from one foreign policy success to another. The accession of Crimea, the secret war in the Donbass, the operation in Syria - Putin has achieved that our country is again in the center of universal attention, again looks like the top of the fate of the world. It is not paid attention to the perimeter of military borders in the Kremlin. And now they do not pay attention to the Kremlin.

The company "GM -Avtsovaz" - the joint venture of General Motors and AvtoVAZ - asked the Russian authorities to provide state guarantees to credit the project for the organization of the new generation Chevrolet Niva SUV. According to Vedomosti , state guarantees can be provided by half the cost of the project - 5-6 billion rubles. Earlier this summer, the Governor of the Samara Region Nikolai Merkushkin stated that the project requires 12-14 billion rubles.

The decision of the FAS in favor of Yandex in the case against Google on the pre-installation of third-party applications on Android devices had a positive impact on the business of a Russian company in the field of mobile products, writes VC.ru with reference to the report of the II quarter of the current year. "Particular attention to the mobile direction allowed us to improve the indicators of monetization of mobile products.

Large -scale personnel permutations adopted by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin are not related to the upcoming elections to the State Duma and local authorities, but are ordinary rotation. This was announced on Thursday to reporters by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov. Earlier in the afternoon, Putin fired four governors and three envoy. “This is not related to the permutations in the FSB and is not directly related to the elections.

The Jebhat al-Nusra terrorist group (prohibited in the Russian Federation) announced the breakdown of relations with the al-Qaeda prohibited in Russia and the change of name to "Jebhat Fatam Ashham". This was reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the leader of the Abu Mohammed al-Julani group. The US government said that they would still consider them terrorists.

Elizaveta Alexandrov-Zorin "Corruption in Russia is talking about something disgusting, but inevitable. The most loud investigations are invariably accompanied by the phrase: so, that, all this is known. Any discussions cause tired apathy: what can we change," the writer in the blog on the website of the Radio "Freedom" . "But corruption not only robs us - corruption kills, and this is not a journalistic exaggeration.

The Colombian football team "Atletico Naconal" became the winner of the Libertadores Cup, the most prestigious club tournament of South America, an analogue of the European Champions League. The first match of the final confrontation with the Independent Del Valier on the field of the Ecuador team ended with a score of 1: 1. In a response meeting on Wednesday in Medelin, Atletico won with a score of 1: 0.

On July 26, American Houston took place the first marriage in the United States under the circus dome. Acrobat Anna Lebedeva and Mustafa Danzhur, who has been in pairs in the largest circus of the world Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus (an American circus founded in 1919; belongs to Feld Entertainment), we decided to choose a rope as a place to exchange rings.

The legends of the Riva, the British group of The Prodigy went to its first Russian tour in November 2016. It will begin on November 2 in Novosibirsk and will end on November 9 in Moscow in Bud Arena, which accommodates up to five thousand people. On November 4, a concert will be held in Yekaterinburg, on November 6 - in Samara, November 8 - in Nizhny Novgorod, RIA Novosti reports.

A little more than a third of Russians, the newly adopted "anti -terrorist amendments" proposed by the head of the State Duma Committee on Security, Senar Yarova and Senator Viktor Ozerov, are known to one way or another. The fact that they "heard something about it", in a survey conducted by the Levada Center, was said by 28% of respondents. 10% informed sociologists that they carefully monitored the adoption of the law.

After the murder of the Catholic priest in Normandy, the French council of the Muslim cult (FSMK) recommends the imams, ministers of mosques, as well as ordinary co -religionists to visit the Mass on Sunday in the nearest church. The statement of this content was distributed on Thursday by the largest Muslim religious organization in France.

The new film of the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky "Paradise" was included in the main competitive program of the Venice Film Festival. The picture of joint Russian-German production talks about the Second World War on the example of three destinies: the Russian emigrant Olga, aristocrats, participants in the French resistance, Frenchman Jules and senior SS officer Helmut, who turned out to be different sides of barricades, but connected by human feelings.

The Russian Ministry of Finance informed the leadership of the Roscosmos state corporation about the planned reduction in financing of the main space programs in 2017-2019, the Izvestia newspaper writes. The Roscosmos says that the sequestration of the space articles of the budget will affect the enterprises of the industry, at which, it may be necessary to slow down or turn their transformations and financial recovery programs.